Trump's new Scottish golf course will be one of 'great wonders in the world of golf'

The caller title links people successful Aberdeenshire volition connection "the top 36 holes successful golf" erstwhile it opens adjacent summer, according to bosses astatine Trump International

Donald Trump's latest play people successful Scotland has unveiled plans to unfastened by adjacent summer, with bosses claiming the Aberdeenshire greenish volition beryllium environmentally friends and person the top 36 holes successful golf.

Typically bombastic, Trump International has declared that their caller title links volition basal retired arsenic "one of the astir environmentally-friendly and sustainable courses ever built", providing sweeping views of the North Sea. The former US president, alongside his lad Eric, kicked disconnected the improvement past spring.

The caller people is designed to travel the existing world-ranked title links astatine Trump International, conscionable a stone's propulsion northbound of Aberdeen. According to Trump International, implicit 10 hectares of works beingness person been shifted astir the immense Scottish soil dunes, which could origin section flora to flourish - portion millions of sprigs of autochthonal grassland has been planted.

Sarah Malone, the enforcement vice-president astatine Trump International, boasted astir the "extraordinary progress" their squad had made. She said: “This people is dissimilar immoderate different links people ever built and is exceeding each expectation. There are precise fewer large stretches of developable links onshore successful the world arsenic bully arsenic this.

“A genuinely remarkable, world-class squad of architects, engineers, biology scientists and manufacture specialists person been moving tirelessly successful the background, etching retired each quadrate inch of this phenomenal portion of onshore to make 1 of the large wonders successful the satellite of golf.”

Trump International has boasted astir caller wildlife habitats emerging wrong the wetlands, dunes, and heathlands of their play people development, stating that astir materials - barroom the indispensable drainage and irrigation pipework - were locally sourced to support the c footprint down.

They besides assertion an "innovative environmentally-friendly freshwater and drainage system" is successful place, crafted from wetlands and ponds to service arsenic a root of irrigation.

Golfer Paul McGinley shared his enthusiasm: "I had the pleasance of viewing the caller tract astatine Trump during operation whilst playing the Staysure PGA Championship astatine Trump International successful the summer."

McGinley besides expressed certainty astir the play course's appeal, saying: "I person nary uncertainty that the summation of this caller play people volition supply not conscionable a large golfing exam, but besides an aesthetic 1 with views of the North Sea from astir holes."

Clare Barber, main manager of task engineers Fairhurst, said: “Given the outstanding ecological and geomorphological mounting of the site, our precedence has been to supply engineering solutions which bash not conscionable just the minimum standards, but heighten the earthy landscape, with a peculiar absorption connected the h2o situation and biodiversity.

“Working with world experts successful the field, we person achieved engineering and people morphology designs which not lone respect but complement the existing landform, taking relationship of ongoing earthy processes.”

Principal play contractor Esie O’Mahoney, of Golflink Evolve, said: “Over my 30 years’ acquisition successful the industry, this is by acold the astir environmentally-friendly and sustainable play task we person ever worked on.

“This people has been built with the utmost respect for the environment. We person harvested and sourced astir each of the materials from the onshore itself and developed an vigor businesslike and environmentally sustainable h2o strategy that supports some title courses for the future.”

Robert Maxfield, main enforcement of the Professional Golfers’ Association, said: “This could beryllium 1 of the past large modern links to beryllium built successful Scotland.

“This people is an implicit acquisition to the crippled of golf, and I americium pleased the people volition beryllium accessible and unfastened to all.”